Google Nexus 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S4

0.phoneArena12 Nov 2013, 07:21posted on

Are the relatively unknown for the typical user Nexus 5 and its unique KitKat features able to win holiday shoppers against the most popular Android flagship - Galaxy S4 – and its instant Samsung brand recognition? Read on to find out...

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9.musokestrain (unregistered)

I replaced Touchwiz with Apex Launcher. It made a huge improvement to my S3. Having said that, I bought a Nexus 5 primarily because I wanted Android updates in a timely manner plus it "declutters" the UI compared to Samsung. I do miss Paper Artist though.

Well at the same time you are also missing all of the S features what Sammy brings with its Touchwiz. I have been using S4 from last 6 months and TBH I haven't experienced any lag or issue what so ever. I had the same perception for Touchwiz until I used it for months.

Most of the "S" features are useless.. sure its fun to show your friends for first few days that is also if it works when you trying to do so. But in real life most of them dont give benefit.
Though S4 awesome hardware and 2GB of ram its lags. It does not feel buttery smooth as it should with these hardware. The moto x with much lesser hardware resource slide like butter. I dont hate Samsung but dont like their software implementation and the phones design. Hope they change it with the upcoming S5 or else in future they will face difficulty. HTC is gonna kill samsung

Going from galaxy S to nexus5 because its cheaper and and much better than s4. Even the scrolling in the app drawer doesnt seem smooth enough and sometimes there is an animation stutter something which really pisses me off inspite having an excellent hardware. Takes an eternity to open the gallery from camera app too. And ofcourse touchwiz s**ks.

I don't understand this writer at all... the more angular design of the nexus 5 looks much sleeker. I'm so tired of these effeminate rounded edged smartphones. Round makes me think of something for a little girl. Like fisher price... windows xp... macs... vw beetles, etc. Samsung is horrible at making a sleek looking phone and while the specs may beat any other manufacturer I have never been pleased with the build quality of Samsung. At least the note 3 is a bit more mature looking.

Despite the fact that both carry a plastic chassis, the rubberized texture on the nexus is much nicer than the cheap glossy stuff on the galaxy.

In my opinion only sony and nokia are making really nice looking phones right now. Now if we can just get a carbon fiber xperia... that would be a nice device.

I love the nexus 5 for its style and kikat. But lets be honest the camera on the nexus 5 has to be one of the worst camera's I've seen in awhile. I have a google editon s4 and it blows nexus 5 out the water for now. When you take a picture on a nexus 5 everything is kinda yellowish but other than that is fast, cheap and a phone you can count on except the camera. Video quality is pretty good. If you don't like sammy features or bloatware for heavens sake you can always put cynagenmod on it or use a launcher. That's the beauty of Android customization and free your phone

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